Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 February 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government

9:00 am

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It may have just taken time to develop the legislation. The situation has improved.

My final question relates to planning policy. The estimated spend was approximately €500,000 and there is quite a bit of underspend. That was mainly due to the fact that anticipated expenditure to carry out the strategic environmental assessment of the wind energy development guidelines was not required in 2017. A lot of people are waiting for the guidelines. Are they finished? I hear they are imminent. This was for 2017, so obviously in 2016 it was expected that this would be done soon. Is that job done yet, or published?

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